Okay, I have
finished work on modem upload. The changes will be in 1.14.11 and
1.15.5. Making changes to the modem handling this late into election
season is crazy. Modem upload needs serious testing, but you knew that
already. I have spent an hour or so testing today on standard USR modems
--I don't have a digi on my machine.
In addition to
fixing Knecht's bug where only one AV could upload, the port behavior
should now be improved somewhat. You will no longer see the weird
green->timeout->red->yellow transition you saw with GEMS 1.11.
The status messages have also changed slightly. You will now see "Waiting
For Call" for an idle modem instead of "Modem On Line". Instead when there
is an active connection that is waiting for a transfer, you will see "Modem
On Line". The port will be in this state after the transfer is
complete until the AV is turned off (regional sites). In other words you
won't see the confusing "AccuVote On Line" for modem connections like in
1.11. Finally you will see a new "Checking Port" state. This appears
briefly while GEMS is determining whether an AccuVote or Modem is connected to
the port.
Bon
Chance.
Ken
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